In connection with your application for employment with Sunset Logistics, Prospective
Employer, its employees, agents or contractors may obtain one or more reports regarding
your driving, and safety inspection history from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA).
When the application for employment is submitted in person, if the Prospective Employer
uses any information it obtains from FMCSA in a decision to not hire you or to make any
other adverse employment decision regarding you, the Prospective Employer will provide
you with a copy of the report upon which its decision was based and a written summary
of your rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act before taking any final adverse action.
If any final adverse action is taken against you based upon your driving history or
safety report, the Prospective Employer will notify you that the action has been taken
and that the action was based in part or in whole on this report.
When the application for employment is submitted by mail, telephone, computer, or other
similar means, if the Prospective Employer uses any information it obtains from FMCSA
in a decision to not hire you or to make any other adverse employment decision regarding
you, the Prospective Employer must provide you within three business days of taking
adverse action oral, written or electronic notification: that adverse action has been
taken based in whole or in part on information obtained from FMCSA; the name,address,
and the toll free telephone number of FMCSA; that the FMCSA did not make the decision
to take the adverse action and is unable to provide you the specific reasons why the
adverse action was taken; and that you may, upon providing proper identification, request
a free copy of the report and may dispute with the FMCSA the accuracy or completeness
of any information or report. If you request a copy of a driver record from the
Prospective Employer who procured the report, then, within 3 business days of receiving
your request, together with proper identification, the Prospective Employer must send or
provide to you a copy of your report and a summary of your rights under the Fair Credit
Reporting Act.
The Prospective Employer cannot obtain background reports from FMCSA unless you consent
in writing. If you agree that the Prospective Employer may obtain such background reports,
please read the following and sign below:
I authorize Sunset Logistics to access the FMCSA Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP)
system to seek information regarding my commercial driving safety record and information
regarding my safety inspection history. I understand that I am consenting to the release
of safety performance information including crash data from the previous five (5) years
and inspection history from the previous three (3) years. I understand and acknowledge
that this release of information may assist the Prospective Employer to make a determination
regarding my suitability as an employee.
I further understand that neither the Prospective Employer nor the FMCSA contractor
supplying the crash and safety information has the capability to correct any safety
data that appears to be incorrect. I understand I may challenge the accuracy of the
data by submitting a request to https://dataqs.fmcsa.dot.gov. If I am challenging crash
or inspection information reported by a State, FMCSA cannot change or correct this data.
I understand my request will be forwarded by the DataQs system to the appropriate State for
adjudication. Please note: Any crash or inspection in which you were involved will display
on your PSP report. Since the PSP report does not report, or assign, or imply fault, it
will include all Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) crashes where you were a driver or co-driver
and where those crashes were reported to FMCSA, regardless of fault. Similarly, all
inspections, with or without violations, appear on the PSP report. State citations associated
with FMCSR violations that have been adjudicated by a court of law will also appear, and
remain, on a PSP report.